Penetrating Bars through Masks of Cosmic Dust

The Editors - Preface.- A Tribute to Cosmic Dust Pioneer J. Mayo Greenberg.- The Hubble Tuning Fork Strikes a New Note.- Episodes in the Development of the Hubble Galaxy Classification.- Secular Evolution Versus Hierarchical Merging: Galaxy Evolution along the Hubble-sequence, in the Fields and Rich Environments.- Dense Gas and Star Formation in Bars.- On the Origin of S0 Galaxies.- Gravitational Bar Torques in the Spiral/S0 Divide.- Direct Measurement of Pattern Speeds In Double-Barred SB0's.- Gas Flows, Star Formation and Galaxy Evolution.- Bar-Driven Evolution and 2D Spectroscopy of Bulges.- Bar-Driven Fueling of Galactic Nuclei: a 2D view.- Dust Penetrated Arm Classes: Insight form Rising and Falling Rotation Curves.- Bar Dissolution and Reformation Mechanisms.- Dynamics of Doubly Barred Galaxies, also with the Inner Bar Retrograde.- A Coordinated Episode of AGB Star Production at Large Galactocentric Distances in the Andromeda Galaxy.- Fuelling Starbursts and AGN.- Penetrating Dust Tori in AGN.- Bars from the Inside Out: An HST Study of their Dusty Circumnuclear Regions.- Morphology of Bar and Spiral Modes: do they relate?- Bar Formation by Galaxy-Galaxy Interactions.- Triggering AGN's - Interactions or Bars?- Triggered Star Formation: from Large to Small Scales.- Investigation of Age and Metallicity Gradients in Spiral Galaxies.- Secular Evolution and the Growth of Pseudobulges in Disk Galaxies.- Bars and Lences in Spiral Galaxies: Clues for Secular Evolution.- Evolution and Impact of Bars over the last nine Gyr: Early Results from GEMS.- First Phylogenetic Analysis of Galaxy Evolution.- A Unified Picture of Disk Galaxies where Bars, Spirals and Warps Result from the Same Fundamental Causes.- On the Generation of the Hubble Sequence trough an Internal Secular Dynamical Process.- The Angular Momentum Problem and the Formation of Bulgeless Galaxies.- Disks Evolution in a Cosmological Framework.- Galaxy Formation and the Cosmological Angular MomentumProblem.- The Problems with Galaxy Formation.- The Interplay between Bars and Dark Matter Halos.- Resent Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope: A New View of Galaxy Morphology and Classification.- Using Bars as Signposts of Galaxy Evolution at High and Low Redshifts.- The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey: Redshift Distribution of a I _AB > 24 Sample, and the Effect of Environment on Galaxy Evolution.- An HST AOS/WFC Ha Imaging Survey of Nearby Galaxies.- HST Mid-UV Imaging of Nearby Galaxies.- Bulges, Disks and Kinematics of Galaxies at z ~ 1.- Fourier Decomposition of Galaxies.- The Evolutionary Status of Clusters of Galaxies at z ~ 1.- Distant z>2 Protoclusters and their Galaxies.- The Galaxy Structure - Redshift Relationship.- The Cosmic Background: Evolution of Infrared Galaxies and Dust Properties.- A lecture Dedicated to the Memory of Mayo Greenberg.- The Physical Evolution of Mass and Dust in Distant Galaxies.- The Warm, Cold and Very Cold Dusty Universe A.- Li Turbulence and Galactic Structure.- Chaos in Spiral Galaxies.- Obtaining Statistics of Turbulent Velocity from Astrophysical Spectral Line Data.- Estimating Power Spectra of Galaxy Structure: Can Statistics Help?- From z>6 to z~2: Unearthing Galaxies at the Edge of the Dark Ages.- Masks in the Milky Way.- The Hierarchical Formation of the Galactic Disk.- The SINGS view of Barred Galaxies.- Quantifying Bar Strength: Morphology Meets Methodology.- Estimation of Bar Strengths from nearby IR Images.- Bar Strengths Measured for the OSUBGS sample: active vs non-active galaxies.- Globular Clusters: Galactic and Internal Motions.- Evolution of Self-Gravitating Gas Disks Driven by a Rotating Bar Potential.- Stellar Disk Truncations: Where do we stand?- On the unification of Dwarf and Giant Elliptical Galaxies.- Photodissociation and the morphology of HI in Galaxies.- The True H2 Content of Spiral Galaxies.- X-Ray Perspective of Early Type Galaxies.- Spiral Arm Star Formation in Barred Galaxies.- Galaxy Types and Luminosity Functions in the Soan Digital Sky Survey using Artificial Neural Networks.- Globular Cluster Systems and Supermassive Galactic Black Holes.- Pseudobulges in Barred S0 Galaxies.- Bar and Spiral Torques in the Triangulum Galaxy M33.- Bar Parameters from Ha Observations Molecular Gas in Classical Elliptical Radio Galaxies.- Bars and Dust Multi Wavelength Maps of Simulations of Galaxy Formation.- How Barred is the NIR Nearby Universe? An Analysis using 2MASS.- Truncation of Stellar Disks at high Redshift Is there a Large Stellar Bar in the LSB Galaxy UGC7321? Spiral structure of the Milky Way: The state of Affairs.- Uncovering Morphology from dust: a NIR View of the Interacting Galaxy Pair NGC5394/95.- SCUBA Local Universe Galaxy Survey.- How JWST can measure First Light, Reionization and Galaxy Assembly.- High Resolution Velocity Fields in the Strongly Barred Galaxy NGC 1530.- Panel Discussion -Closing Conference Thoughts.-The Noblest Scientific Problem of the Age: Perspectives on the Transit of Venus, 1882 and 2004 Description of the Commemorative Medallion, Struck to Celebrate the Transition of Venus, Observed from South Africa on 8 June 2004.- Caption for Colour plates.- The 16 colour plates.- List of Participants.

The Editors - Preface.- A Tribute to Cosmic Dust Pioneer J. Mayo Greenberg.- The Hubble Tuning Fork Strikes a New Note.- Episodes in the Development of the Hubble Galaxy Classification.- Secular Evolution Versus Hierarchical Merging: Galaxy Evolution along the Hubble-sequence, in the Fields and Rich Environments.- Dense Gas and Star Formation in Bars.- On the Origin of S0 Galaxies.- Gravitational Bar Torques in the Spiral/S0 Divide.- Direct Measurement of Pattern Speeds In Double-Barred SB0s.- Gas Flows, Star Formation and Galaxy Evolution.- Bar-Driven Evolution and 2D Spectroscopy of Bulges.- Bar-Driven Fueling of Galactic Nuclei: a 2D view.- Dust Penetrated Arm Classes: Insight form Rising and Falling RotationCurves.- Bar Dissolution and Reformation Mechanisms.- Dynamics of Doubly Barred Galaxies, also with the Inner Bar Retrograde.- A Coordinated Episode of AGB Star Production at Large Galactocentric Distances in the Andromeda Galaxy.- Fuelling Starbursts and AGN.- Penetrating Dust Tori in AGN.- Bars from the Inside Out: An HST Study of their Dusty Circumnuclear Regions.- Morphology of Bar and Spiral Modes: do they relate?- Bar Formation by Galaxy-Galaxy Interactions.- Triggering AGNs - Interactions or Bars?- Triggered Star Formation: from Large to Small Scales.- Investigation of Age and Metallicity Gradients in Spiral Galaxies.- Secular Evolution and the Growth of Pseudobulges in Disk Galaxies.- Bars and Lences in Spiral Galaxies: Clues for Secular Evolution.- Evolution and Impact of Bars over the last nine Gyr: Early Results from GEMS.- First Phylogenetic Analysis of Galaxy Evolution.- A Unified Picture of Disk Galaxies where Bars, Spirals and Warps Result from the Same Fundamental Causes.- On the Generation of the Hubble Sequence trough an Internal Secular Dynamical Process.- The Angular Momentum Problem and the Formation of Bulgeless Galaxies.- Disks Evolution in a Cosmological Framework.- Galaxy Formation and the Cosmological Angular Momentum Problem.- The Problems with Galaxy Formation.- The Interplay between Bars and Dark Matter Halos.- Resent Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope: A New View of Galaxy Morphology and Classification.- Using Bars as Signposts of Galaxy Evolution at High and Low Redshifts.- The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey: Redshift Distribution of a I _AB > 24 Sample, and the Effect of Environment on Galaxy Evolution.- An HST AOS/WFC Ha Imaging Survey of Nearby Galaxies.- HST Mid-UV Imaging of Nearby Galaxies.- Bulges, Disks and Kinematics of Galaxies at z ~ 1.- Fourier Decomposition of Galaxies.- The Evolutionary Status of Clusters of Galaxies at z ~ 1.- Distant z>2 Protoclusters and their Galaxies.- The Galaxy Structure - Redshift Relationship.- The Cosmic Background: Evolution of Infrared Galaxies and Dust Properties.- A lecture Dedicated to the Memory of Mayo Greenberg.- The Physical Evolution of Mass and Dust in Distant Galaxies.- The Warm, Cold and Very Cold Dusty Universe A.- Li Turbulence and Galactic Structure.- Chaos in Spiral Galaxies.- Obtaining Statistics of Turbulent Velocity from Astrophysical Spectral Line Data.- Estimating Power Spectra of Galaxy Structure: Can Statistics Help?- From z>6 to z~2: Unearthing Galaxies at the Edge of the Dark Ages.- Masks in the Milky Way.- The Hierarchical Formation of the Galactic Disk.- The SINGS view of Barred Galaxies.- Quantifying Bar Strength: Morphology Meets Methodology.- Estimation of Bar Strengths from nearby IR Images.- Bar Strengths Measured for the OSUBGS sample: active vs non-active galaxies.- Globular Clusters: Galactic and Internal Motions.- Evolution of Self-Gravitating Gas Disks Driven by a Rotating Bar Potential.- Stellar Disk Truncations: Where do we stand?- On the unification of Dwarf and Giant Elliptical Galaxies.- Photodissociation and the morphology of HI in Galaxies.- The True H2 Content of Spiral Galaxies.- X-Ray Perspective of Early Type Galaxies.- Spiral Arm Star Formation in Barred Galaxies.- Galaxy Types and Luminosity Functions in the Soan Digital Sky Survey using Artificial Neural Networks.- Globular Cluster Systems and Supermassive Galactic Black Holes.- Pseudobulges in Barred S0 Galaxies.- Bar and Spiral Torques in the Triangulum Galaxy M33.- Bar Parameters from Ha Observations Molecular Gas in Classical Elliptical Radio Galaxies.- Bars and Dust Multi Wavelength Maps of Simulations of Galaxy Formation.- How Barred is the NIR Nearby Universe? An Analysis using 2MASS.- Truncation of Stellar Disks at high Redshift Is there a Large Stellar Bar in the LSB Galaxy UGC7321? Spiral structure of the Milky Way: The state of Affairs.- Uncovering Morphology from dust: a NIR View of the Interacting Galaxy Pair NGC5394/95.- SCUBA Local Universe Galaxy Survey.- How JWST can measure First Light, Reionization and Galaxy Assembly.- High Resolution Velocity Fields in the Strongly Barred Galaxy NGC 1530.- Panel Discussion -Closing Conference Thoughts.-The Noblest Scientific Problem of the Age: Perspectives on the Transit of Venus, 1882 and 2004 Description of the Commemorative Medallion, Struck to Celebrate the Transition of Venus, Observed from South Africa on 8 June 2004.- Caption for Colour plates.- The 16 colour plates.- List of Participants.